Handbook of Siswati |
Common terms and phrases
absolute pronoun action adnominal stems adnoun adverbial forms already appear aspect auxiliary verb bafana Bantfwana basic prefix become called cattle changes Chapter class prefix clause consists continued cooks copula construction demonstrative ekhaya ending English examples express extension Father final future tense girl he/she horse imperative indicate initial vowel inja interrogative kind kudla language lapha lihhashi locative longer meaning meat names negative negative form normally Note noun object occurs past tense perfect person play plural position possessive preceded predicate present tense progressive quantifier refers relationship relative concord relative construction sentence short singular siSwati situative stative subject concord subject noun suffix syllable talking teacher tinja tinkhomo translated umfana Umfati usually verb stem vowel vowel verb stems walking woman yini